JOL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. JOL is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 10 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept JOL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JOL is to know. It scores 10 from 3 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JOL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How JOL scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in JOL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 5,053.
What does JOL mean in Scrabble?
noun
South African
A party, or a good time.
Jol works as noun and verb alike: you can have a jol or spend the whole night jolling. It comes from Afrikaans and carries no suggestion of excess at all, which is what separates it from most English words for the same thing.
How JOL is used
Countable: a jol, two jols. Also a verb. Chiefly South African.
- The jol went on until the sun came up.
- They jolled through the whole weekend and worked on Monday.
- A jol at that house means forty people and one bathroom.
- He missed the jol and heard about it for a month.
- The word jol covers everything from a braai to a wedding.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JOL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with JOL
Showing 24 of 65 words that begin with JOL.
Words ending in JOL
1 words end in JOL. Useful as a back hook: play JOL onto a word already on the board.
Words with JOL inside
21 words contain JOL in the middle. Words that start with JOL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in JOL
Common questions about JOL
- Is JOL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and JOL is not in it.
- How many points is JOL worth?
- JOL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JOL mean?
- A party, or a good time.
- What letters can be added to JOL?
- JOL takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of JOL:
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